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Hackers Exploit 'Zero-Day' Bugs For 10 Months On Average Before They're Exposed

By aewhale - 10/17/2012 Is your environment safe? When was it tested last? Are you monitoring the network? The Applications? What do you know about your environment? More often than not, you don't know what you don't know.

Wells Fargo is latest victim in cyber attack spree

By aewhale - 9/26/2012 Wells Fargo & Co. failed to deliver online and mobile banking service much of Tuesday. (Wells Fargo & Co. / September 25, 2012)

Beware Osama Bin Laden links

By aewhale - 5/4/2011 The Hackers are ready to send both infected images and website links to infect your computers. Please don't open anything from people you don't know. God Bless our Navy SEALS.

Hackers steal Confidential data from Utility companies for more than 4 years

By aewhale - 2/13/2011 MacAfee reports, Chinese hackers working regular business hours shifts stole sensitive intellectual property from energy companies for as long as four years using relatively unsophisticated intrusion methods in an operation dubbed 'Night Dragon,

Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computers

By aewhale - 2/6/2011 PatPending tips a Wall Street Journal report claiming that hackers have repeatedly broken into the computer networks of the company running the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.

New Malware out from online Banks

By aewhale - 2/6/2011 What appears to be a beta version of a piece of malware that has bits of both Zeus and SpyEye is now in circulation, albeit among just a few people, said Aviv Raff, CTO and cofounder of Seculert.

X-Mas time zero day Exploits

By aewhale - 1/15/2011 Microsoft has put out an advisory 2488013 regarding the issue which manifests itself when a specially crafted web page is used and could result in remote code execution on the client.

Doorways Sneak To Non-Default Ports of Hacked Servers

By aewhale - 12/5/2010 "To drive traffic to their online stores, software pirates hack reputable legitimate websites injecting hidden spammy links and creating doorway pages. Google's search results are seriously poisoned by such doorways. Negligence of webmasters of compromised sites makes this scheme viable — doorways remain unnoticed for years. Not so long ago, hackers began to re-configure Apache on compromised servers to make them serve doorway pages off of non-default ports, still taking advantage of using established domain names."

New Rootkit Bypasses Windows Code-Signing Security

By aewhale - 12/5/2010 In recent versions of Windows, specifically Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft has introduced a number of new security features designed to prevent malicious code from running. But attackers are continually finding new ways around those protections, and the latest example is a rootkit that can bypass the Windows driver-signing protection.

Hacker Business models

By aewhale - 10/20/2010 The industrialized hackers are intent on one goal--making money. They also know the basic rules of the business of increasing revenues while cutting costs.

DC Internet Voting Trial Attacked 2 Different Ways

By aewhale - 10/10/2010 University of Michigan Professor J. Alex Halderman and his team actually had two completely separate successful attacks on Washington, DC's internet voting experiment. The second path in was revealed by Halderman during testimony before the District of Columbia's Board of Elections and Ethics on Friday.

Stuxnet Worm attacks IRAN

By aewhale - 9/27/2010 The Stuxnet worm is a target specific worm designed to hit computer control systems. The recent attacks are all targeted in Iran.

Rootkits active for 64-bit linux kernel

By aewhale - 9/21/2010 Running 64-bit Linux? Haven't updated yet? You're probably being rooted as I type this. Luckily, there's a tool you can run to see if you've already been exploited, courtesy of security company Ksplice, which beat most of the Linux vendors with a 'rebootless' version of the patch.

Fidel Castro, Internet News Junkie

By aewhale - 9/6/2010 The LA Times reports that 84-year-old Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro consumes 200 to 300 news items a day on the World Wide Web. In a recent interview he called Web communication 'the most powerful weapon that has existed' and extolled its power to break a stranglehold on the media by 'the empire' and 'ambitious private groups that have abused it' adding that the Internet 'has put an end to secrets....

Dubai's Police Chief Calls BlackBerry a Spy Tool

By aewhale - 9/6/2010 Dubai is calling the BlackBerry a Spy tool, and insists on gaining access to Encrypted Servers, or crippling the email, messaging, and web services.

Spammers Attack Apple's Ping Social Network

By aewhale - 9/5/2010 Scammers and spammers have deluged the new Ping musical social network, created by Apple and built into the new version of iTunes. Sophos researchers have found that Ping is being overrun by scams and spam messages.

New Malware Imitates Browser Warning Pages

By aewhale - 9/4/2010 Microsoft is warning about a new piece of malware, Rogue:MSIL/Zeven, that auto-detects a user's browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. The fake warning pages are very similar to the real thing; you have to look closely to realize they aren't the real thing.

Another exploit permits remote control by the hackers

By aewhale - 9/1/2010 Remote control is again found in another exploit discovered with QuickTime version 7 software, and the user encountering a Malicious website.

1st ever MalCom, conference for malware coders

By aewhale - 8/29/2010 There is a security conference being held in Mumbai later this year called MalCon, and the organizers say it's the first ever conference dedicated to the 'malcoder community.' 'Just like the concept of "ethical hacking" has helped organizations to see that hackers are not all that bad, it is time to accept that "ethical malcoding" is required to research, identify and mitigate newer malwares in a "proactive" way.'

2008 Plane Crash by Trojan infected computer

By aewhale - 8/21/2010 "Two years ago, Spanair flight JK-5022 crashed shortly after takeoff in Madrid, killing 154 of its 172 passengers and crew. El Pais online newspaper reports that the ground computer responsible for triggering an alarm after three failures are reported in a plane failed to do so. The computer was infected with trojans (Google translation of Spanish original)."

How confident are you that the equipment you use is malware free

By aewhale - 8/5/2010 The latest trend may be Hackers embedding Malware in the hardware you use. Maybe it blocks the use of the equipment (you know, it just suddenly quits working), or sends your data to a remote location.

Financial Fraud delivered by Zeus botnet

By aewhale - 8/5/2010 More than 100,000 infected computers are being used to conduct financial fraud. The criminals have developed a very lucrative means of making money on your behalf.

WiFI WPA2 vulnerability found

By aewhale - 7/25/2010 Researchers have found Hole 196 inside WiFi networks. Another Zero-Day exploit for WiFi networks.

Social Networks used to control Botnets

By aewhale - 7/25/2010 Bot herders and the crimeware gangs behind banker Trojans are finding that social networks such as Twitter and Facebook are offering even more fertile and convenient grounds for controlling their malicious creations.

Will you accept technical support from a cold call?

By aewhale - 7/22/2010 If you get a cold call from someone telling you that you need go to a website to download some remote assistance software, don't listen to them. Although you should have a good handle on who is supporting your environment.

Hotels take the lead .for Identity Theft

By aewhale - 7/10/2010 Staying at a hotel is the most risky for identity theft. At hotels with inadequate data security, the greatest amount of credit card information can be obtained using the simplest methods. It doesn't require brilliance on the part of the hacker.

Printing your Photos can get you infected

By aewhale - 7/7/2010 Reports are now surfacing about Photo Kiosks that are infecting customer USB devices. Now when you insert your USB drive to print your photos, you may be get more than just your pictures.

India wants to read your Blackberry and Skype messages

By aewhale - 7/6/2010 Perhaps you thought that using Public networks meant that your communications were private? Think again, now they also want access to gmail as well.

YouTube hit by HTML Injection vulnerability

By aewhale - 7/6/2010 Imagine planning on surfing more videos, and getting hacked by YouTube.

Your VPN may no longer protect your identity

By Admin - 6/22/2010 A new flaw has been discovered for users of the new IPv6 IP Addressing mode, and VPNs which use the PPTP protocol. Your IP Address, Mac Address and the name of your computer is easily determined, even while you are using a VPN.

The new viruses are acting like Transformers

By Admin - 5/30/2010 What makes a typical virus spread faster? The ability to transform into a newer Malware that easily reconfigures itself into newer Malware. Think of it as the Transformers of the Virus world.

IBM gives out USB drives with Malware

By Admin - 5/22/2010 At the recent Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) conference, IBM Handed out USB drives with known Malware on them.

Getting your personal data is easier than you think

By Admin - 5/19/2010 Smart phone users are the newest attack vector for Cyber crime today. The easiest way to permit the hackers into your personal information is to own a Smart phone and then download an app with a Trojan in it!

You are responsible for the network you installed

By Admin - 5/14/2010 This week a German Court found that the owner of WIFI network was responsible for allowing other people to access his WIFI equipment while he was on vacation! 'Private users are obligated to check whether their wireless connection is adequately secured to the danger of unauthorized third parties abusing it to commit copyright violation,' the court said.

Impersonators reported

By Admin - 5/11/2010 Be advised that we have reports of Sales calls from unknown individuals representing our company. Report today at 11:00am.

Bank Employee plants malware in ATM machines

By aewhale - 4/17/2010 So do you know what is in the ATM Machine that you are using? These machine are easily infected, and now can steal your ATM information and take money without leaving a trace.

Chinese ISP hijacks the Internet, again

By aewhale - 4/11/2010 This is the second time in two weeks that an ISP in China has redirected network traffic to themselves, instead of where it was really intended.

Go to your search engine and get infected.

By aewhale - 4/1/2010 I've been talking about this for years. The hackers place a little javascript in a picture, and you can get hacked from anywhere, including your search engine.

New Malware takes over Software Updaters

By aewhale - 4/1/2010 I think that you have seen the automatic software updates on your PC, well you need to pay attention to these applications, because they may not be what you think they are.

Millions continue to click on SPAM

By aewhale - 3/30/2010 Even though Most everyone is aware of Spammers, and Hackers people continue to click on SPAM messages.

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